Pickup and tractor-trailer collide, causing major traffic delays on I-84 in Danbury

Updated 8:53 am, Thursday, August 25, 2011

Traffic is backed up on I-84 West in Danbury, the result of an accident that happened early Wednesday afternoon between I-84 Exits 2 and 3 that involved a car and two tractor-trailers.
Police said one of the truck's load spilled onto both sides of the highway, resulting in closure of the left lanes of Interstate 84 both eastbound and westbound.
Photo: Carol Kaliff

Traffic is backed up on I-84 West in Danbury, the result of an...

Traffic is backed up on I-84 West in Danbury, the result of an accident that happened early Wednesday afternoon between I-84 Exits 2 and 3 that involved a car and two tractor-trailers.
Police said one of the truck's load spilled onto both sides of the highway, resulting in closure of the left lanes of Interstate 84 both eastbound and westbound.
Photo: Carol Kaliff

Traffic is backed up on I-84 West in Danbury, the result of an...

Traffic is backed up on I-84 West in Danbury, the result of an accident that happened early Wednesday afternoon between I-84 Exits 2 and 3 that involved a car and two tractor-trailers.
Police said one of the truck's load spilled onto both sides of the highway, resulting in closure of the left lanes of Interstate 84 both eastbound and westbound.
Photo: Carol Kaliff

Traffic is backed up on I-84 West in Danbury, the result of an...

Two people escaped serious injuries Wednesday in a three-vehicle crash that tied up traffic on Interstate 84 in both directions for miles. State Police said the chain-reaction accident occurred a few minutes after noon between exits 3 and 2 westbound.
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DANBURY -- Two people escaped serious injuries Wednesday in a three-vehicle crash that tied up traffic on Interstate 84 in both directions for miles.

State Police said the chain-reaction accident occurred a few minutes after noon between exits 3 and 2 westbound.

The accident was triggered when a Chevy Silverado pickup truck driven by Walter Rogg, 76, of Gretl Lane, New Milford, moved from the right to the center lane, where it collided with a tractor-trailer, police said.

The tractor-trailer was forced into the left lane, where it hit a Mazda Protege driven by a Stephanie Nemeth, 36, of Waterbury, and crushed the smaller vehicle against the median barrier.

Police said the truck's load spilled onto both sides of the highway, resulting in closure of the left lanes of the highway in both directions.

Nemeth and Rogg were taken to Danbury Hospital with what state police said were minor injuries. The tractor-trailer driver, Edwin DeJesus, 49, of Colchester, was unhurt.